Do you have something from the 80’s you still cherish?

Posted by hanshotfirst2233@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 42 comments

My Grandma gave me this tote bag in 1982 in Billy Martin’s last year as the Oakland A’s manager. She’s been gone for a few years now, but the bag perseveres after 44.

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CannedDuck1906@reddit

One of the early Cabbage Patch Kids dolls with the cloth face, and autographed shoe. I still have the birth certificate that came with her.

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Ive_Got_No_Control@reddit

I still have the Cabbage Patch Kid I got for Christmas in 82!

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RB___OG@reddit

Kinda off topic but you should check out a movie called Patchtown

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CannedDuck1906@reddit

I also have my Snuggles stuffed bear my mom got me. He has a crooked ear. Mom saved bar codes for over a year to send in to get him.

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andronicus_14@reddit

I still have my NES and 10-15 games. It works great for a 40 year-old gaming console.

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Mysterious_Riley@reddit

Dude ur grandma bag from 82 rlly hits lowkey ngl

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tableleg7@reddit

OP: “Check out my raggedy old duffel bag.”

Embarassed_spell_28: “That’s not a knife …”

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DetCityDaveST@reddit

Damn. Stealing OPs thunder. What a fucking garage.

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Electrical-Sun-2067@reddit

Whaaaattt!? I definitely can’t compete with that.

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TheCheshireCody@reddit

I have a raggedy-ass gigantic ugly-as hell sweater - black & white checks - that I just wear around the house. I'm wearing it in my sophomore or junior yearbook picture.

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This t-shirt but in yellow. It was my uncle's that I wore as pajamas when I stayed at my grandma's growing up and somehow it ended up in my possession permanently. Technically it might be 1970's but it was 80s for me.

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djsynrgy@reddit

My dad has this as a poster, and has been singing it, my whole life.

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the_fool_who@reddit

B Kliban is an amazing cartoonist and hugely influential! Absurdist before it was cool

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scarred_but_whole@reddit

I knew nothing about the cartoonist until well into adulthood. Adults taught me the rhyme on the shirt before I could read and it's been stuck in my memory since. I googled it out of curiosity one day in the mid aughts and finally learned about it. Very cool.

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vicariousgluten@reddit

Does my brother count?

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Opposite-Heron-2487@reddit

This old sack of bones and meat I am trapped in. Doesn't work like it used to, but replacement is not practical at this point.

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jdw1977@reddit

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My 6th grade camp shirt. It has my name printed on the back.

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TheBr0fessor@reddit

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marmot1101@reddit

My hockey stick from highschool. Aluminum 2 piece. Still use it for stick handling practice to this day because it's a fucking rebar that will outlast me.

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dogtweredog@reddit

Haven't had this one since the 80s but he is identical to one of my favorite childhood stuffed animals. Bought him on eBay awhile back.

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Seven19td@reddit

My Bo Jackson rookie card. I’ve had it for almost 40 years. It’s not in mint condition and I don’t care about the monetary value of it but he was one of my heroes as a kid. It’s the only card I still have left from my card collection

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fromthedarqwaves@reddit

I had no idea who Bo was until my cousin opened a back of cards and found this one. So my jealously consumed me and I went to a baseball card store and bought one for the bone crushing price of $8. This was 1990-1991 so technically outside this posts window. But it’s still one of my favorite cards.

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hanshotfirst2233@reddit (OP)

I had that poster on my wall growing up

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

I wish I kept my Bo shirt lol

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StillhasaWiiU@reddit

Bo Jackson was such a bad ass.

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hanshotfirst2233@reddit (OP)

I always loved the 86’ Topps card. I know I still have a few somewhere.

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Sparked_Zwei@reddit

Bo knows..

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Coitus_lnterruptus@reddit

I moved across the country twice, and my parents moved to be near me. Everything was thrown away or donated prior to moves. I don't have a single thing that I owned prior to 2000ish.

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missnickypearl@reddit

❤️

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hanshotfirst2233@reddit (OP)

Is that a Pound Puppy?

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missnickypearl@reddit

Yep, been dragging him around 41 years.

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Iocnar@reddit

Axis and Allies was as close as I got. I'm pretty sure I had it 19 or 20 years ago. I think I got it in 88 maybe 87. I don't remember what happened to it. I may have embarrassingly thrown it away because I thought it lost too much stuff. Not like I'd have anyone to play it with anyways.

Then after that was a leather biker jacket I may have had since 89 but I sold it about that same time 19 or 20 years ago.

As much shit as I have which is an ungodly fuck ton I don't think I have a single thing from the 80s. Maybe that's why I have so much shit.

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